In the Falling Snow

A quiet yet powerful portrait of a man's undoing during his middle years and his lost of identity as husband and father. I think Caryl Phillips, a native of St. Kitts and a resident of London, is one of the finest writers of this century.......more

Definitely a challenging readbut a great book. A book about three generations of black men who live in the UK. One of the black men, Keith Gordan, a middle aged man going through a midlife crisis. Yes, he may be a little annoying, irratating at times but that is to be expected from an individual who......more

I liked it. I immediately trusted Phillips's sentences, diving into them completely--the way I did as a kid (when I read at night, under the covers, with a flashlight). The novel is about how a somewhat recently divorced middle-aged man navigates his relationship with his son and father. And about w......more